My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 457: When will military morale be in chaos?

The letter said nothing.

He just looked at Zhao Gao calmly.

He came back here just to kill the man in front of him.

But, it's not the time yet.

When he can replace Zhao Gao, Zhao Gao's death will come.

"I have a clear conscience towards the prince. Moreover, I am always different from you. No matter where I go, I will never become as bottomless as you."

Zhao Gao sneered, "Then I'll wait and see."

Xin's face twitched. He didn't expect that Zhao Gao would be so arrogant in front of him at this stage. Xin couldn't help but ask, "Don't you know why I came back?"

A sneer appeared on Zhao Gao's face.

"Then Prince, what should we do?"

They swallowed the spies' report back.

When the two generals heard this, they looked at each other and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Those who accompany the king must not have any blood on their hands. Don't tell me what you did when you came back. Even the king knows it clearly. I'm afraid you will never have the chance to do it."

Xin didn't say anything, he just clenched his hands into fists and veins popped out on the back of his hands.

The soldiers in the Qin army's camp began to get up early for activities.

Fusu looked at the sword hanging on the sword stand on one side, his eyes were like lightning, "The art of war says: Those who count rewards will be embarrassed. Those who count punishments will be trapped."

Fusu said decisively.

The night has always been heavy, and when dawn breaks, the rose-colored fingers of the goddess of dawn hang down to the earth.

"Whenever Xiang Yan rewards the soldiers but punishes the generals, he will be at his wits' end."

"Continuously issuing rewards is not a way to boost morale and inspire fighting spirit; repeatedly punishing subordinates severely shows that the command is in trouble and has no solution."

“How come you see?”

It's just that I heard some good news last night, and at dawn Fusu got another good news.

"At dawn today, the spies came to report that Xiang Yan has lost his support, and now all the nobles in the army have begun to oppose his leadership of the army."

Fusu barely slept for an hour.

After hearing this, Fusu couldn't help but sneer, "Afraid of backstabbing? With the strength of the Chu State, if Xiang Yan is gone, who will lead the 400,000 troops? With three households of nobles, I'm afraid there won't even be a chance to regret it. No."

"Continue to send people to keep an eye on it. Wait another three to five days. The more Xiang Yan refuses to fight, the more panic the Chu soldiers will have. When the Chu soldiers are disheartened, it will be time for us to counterattack."

"It must be Xiang Yan who used a trick to deceive our Qin army. They want to see if there is a traitor among the city fathers."

Wang Ben and Feng Jie came to Fusu with great interest and said, "Report to the prince, the morale of the Chu army is in great chaos."

But at this time, Fusu didn't believe that Victory had already climbed to his door.

Feng Jie looked puzzled, "I dare to ask the prince, when will it be considered that the soldiers of Chu are disheartened?"

After listening to Fusu's words, the two went back to wait.

In the next few days, the Qin army occupied several surrounding villages, stocked up on firewood, and opened up food routes.

The Qin army crossed the original boundary between Qin and Chu. Today, it is only twenty miles away, but the Chu army is forced here. Just like a cat catching a mouse, the mouse fights with the cat and wants to get home. But when I arrived at the door of my house, I didn't dare to go any further for fear of taking the cat back to its nest. So the mouse hid far outside the house, but the cat was different.

Lying lazily next to the mouse, see how much trouble the mouse can make.

Now, the Qin army and the Chu army are in this situation.
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Seven days later, the three major households in Chu State, Qu, Jing, and Zhao, were struggling to solve the current predicament. The three clans' arrogance slowly faded, and they no longer clamored to break away from Xiang Yan's command.

But the soldiers below began to feel depressed.

"What do I think? This war is getting more and more wrong? It stands to reason that when two big countries are at war, they should at least have a head-on exchange of ideas."

"It's good now that Qin and Chu don't communicate with each other, and there is no news about each other."

"I heard that the three major households in Qu Jingzhao were extremely dissatisfied with our general, saying that he was afraid of Prince Qin, to the point where the wind and the sky were shaking, and every tree and tree were in disarray. Originally, the three major households planned to change their commanders, but they could not find anyone who could serve as the commander-in-chief of the three armies. In addition, there were The king supported the general, so he gave up."

"Speaking of which, is the war none of our business? If we win, we still don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to wear; if we lose, we still don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to wear."

"That's right."

"If you are on the battlefield, really don't listen to the general's orders. The general only thinks about victory and does not care about the life and death of his soldiers. If you run fast, you can still survive; but if you run slow and encounter Qin soldiers, Then he will definitely die. The people of Qin are cruel and will not let anyone go in order to gain promotion."
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These discussions quickly spread among the army, and Xiang Yan couldn't even think about it.

Xiang Yan heard about these situations and immediately summoned his generals.

"The morale of the generals and officers in the army is now low. If things continue like this, it will be detrimental."

Xiang Yan stroked his beard and looked at the soldiers present.

Qu Ye then asked, "What does the general think?"

Xiang Yan waved his hand and just said again, "When the morale of the soldiers is low, they will think about escaping in the middle of the night; when the morale is low again, they will think about selling information to the Qin army on the opposite side."

After hearing this, all the generals became afraid.

Because they were afraid that things would get out of hand, they were afraid that their men would cut off the general's head and take it to the Qin people.

So the generals asked Xiang Yan one after another, "General, is there anything you can do?"

Xiang Yan then said, "To reward the soldiers for their hard journey, each one will be given a bushel of rice, a bowl of soup, and fine wine. It's just that the army has no resources."

The generals looked at each other and said, "What's the problem? We just pay for it ourselves."

Xiang Yan did not show joy at the time, but said calmly, "Then do this. Only by making the soldiers grateful to us can we be of the same mind as the generals."

The generals listened and followed suit after going down.

However, three days later, something happened that Xiang Yan and the generals did not expect. After the soldiers of the Chu army finished drinking wine and eating meat soup, they began to act more brazenly than before.

Early in the morning, the soldiers were lying on the beach, and some were fishing by the river, unwilling to return to the military camp anyway.

There were a lot of people, a thousand people.

The soldiers stood in the water in darkness, and the water level upstream was blocked and the water level rose.

More than a thousand people were not a large number at all.

However, in a military camp with 400,000 people, such an action was a blatant provocation to the general.

After hearing this, Zhaoyang immediately ordered, "All these soldiers must be punished severely, otherwise the morale of the soldiers will be chaotic."

[That’s all for tonight. Wait for me to adjust the status, and I will update it tomorrow. 】

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